The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-16
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| cent Hollandish Music Festival held in Amster-
dam. Minnie Hauk was one Of the soloists.
THE Kansas druggists who are required by
law to get twenty five women to sign their petit
tons for permits to sell liquor, find that it is
! hard condition.
IT is EXPECTED that the present session of the
New Hampshire Legislature will be the longest
| in the history of that body. Already it has
| lasted l02 days
AN EXPERIENCED HALTER says one tall man
buys more hats than three short men. Doors.
and projections and roofs are destructive to fine
hats on six-foot men.
LUCK has dawned on the Gloucester mack
erel fleet. Last Tuesday six of them caught
! from 80 to 200 barrels each of what is termed
| the largest mackerel ever landed at Gloucester.
THERE is highway crossing over the New
| York Central road, where 100 people have been
| killed in the last fourteen years because the
| company was too stingy to employ a watch
! man.
A PIECE OF ROCK was thrown 1000 feet by a
blast in shaft No. o, Calumet G. Heela mine, in
Michigan, and in coming down crashed through
a house landing at the feet of an old lady who
| sat knitting.
D. NJ. HUNTER. of Mount Morris, Mich, owns
colt which has no eyes, having been born in
| that unfortunate condition. It is now over a
| year old, and rather more intelligent than the
| Ordinary equine.
ALL Cinnamon were ordered to leave the new
gold field at Clermont, in Queenland. on Aug. /.
The Cinnamon are resisting with force Several
| are getting good gold and decline to leave
Great trouble is anticipated as the police are in
| sufficient.
A CARAT of gold received it's name from the
carat seed or the seed Of the Abyssinian cora
! flower. This was at one period made useful
when gems of gold were to be weighed, and so
came about the peculiar and now general use of
the word.
! THE killing of squirrels, prairie dogs, bears,
mountain lions wolves, and coyotes is quite an
expensive item in the yearly budget of Mon
| tana. From JAN to August 1887, that terri
tory paid in bounties for the killing of the same
$96, OBS 10.
A COYOTE in Walla Wala was attacked by an
| immense hawk that hit him fair on the back of
| the head. The coyote would duck his head
| then make snap at the hawk, but could not
reach it, and at the end of twenty minutes the
coyote was trailing in the dust.
THE Vienna University was attended during
the past summer semester by 5,456 students,
| 2,66S of whom were in the medical faculty an
| increase of 379 over last year The number of
foreigners studying in the University shows also
I a steady increase, the United States furnishing
| II, almost all of whom attended medical lee
| lures.
IhlSS DAlSH II hENCH. Oh luSCOla, mas Tor some
| time been taking arsenic for her complexion
Her most intimate friends were not aware of it.
Friday she took an overdose and was soon Suf-
| fering from the poison. She acknowledged the
cause and a physician summoned. The
| prompt application of stomach pump saved
| her life.
| AN industrial canvass of $50 Maine cities and
| towns by the Lewiston Gazette shows that thus
| far this year there have been erected 1000
| houses, % school houses and dozen churches
putting S5,000,000 into new buildings of all
Kinds there are sc, 900 persons engaged in pro-
| ducing over $50, 100000 worth of goods. and
already las new enterprises have been started
Two new fodder plants have been discovered
| in Finney county, Kansas. One is called the
branching dourra,'' and is much the same in
| appearance as the ''rice corn" with which
most Kansas farmers are familiar. The other
is the ''teosnt grass - but looks more like corn
| than grass. 1t comes from small seed no
| bigger than turnip seed. 1t is stated that the
| stalks or leaves from single seed of it furnish
feed enough for two cows or oxen for twenty
| four hours
THE kingdom of Saxony is richer in railroads
| than any other German State containing 1866
metres of track on every square kilometre of
| ground, as against 81 in Prussia g. in Bavaria
| "a in Nuremberg, 50 in Baden 1909 in Hesse, 1O5
| in Sake Altenburg LOG in Anhalt, SO in Sake
| Weimar, etc. Saxony enjoys also the distinc-
| tion of being the most saving of all German
countries 40 out of every 100 inhabitants being
| depoSitors in savings banks. In Prussia the
proportion is IA in 100, in Bavaria in 100.
THERE is now living within a mile of Kent
| vile, n. S., an aged colored man by the name
i of Elisha Laurence, who was on board the
/ Chesapeake at the time Of her encounter with
! the Shannon during the American war of 1872
| This individual was but an infant whose parents
| were cooks on board the ship, AM of course re-
| members nothing of the fight. He neyerthel ess
| seems to think that he is entitled to some honor
| on account of his presence on that memorable
occasion. -a
AMONG the presents received by the young
people at a recent Dakota wedding were the
| following: From groom to bride, one bull pup,
| one yaller dog pair water spaniels and a pure
| meerschaum pipe with tobacco; from bride to
| groom, one good shotgun. one bowie knife, rifle
| and three dogs; from parents of bridegroom,
one fiddle, one banjo, spotted pup and six
| pounds of tobacco; from Shotgun Club. of which
| the young couple were members, one English
| mastiff and pair of silver mounted pistols.
THE Oldest man in Ohio, and perhaps in the
United States, was Lawrence Malloy who died
| last Sunday at Sabina Clermont county The
| records show that he was born in 1881 which
made him 106 years old He was born in Ire
| ago, when he started for America. For the past
| twenty years he had been supported by his ED
| est daughter He was the parent of ten chill
| dren, five of whom still live and are each over
40 years old. He retained his faculties I'D to the
very last.
| THE Africans on the coast are far more in
| telligent than those in the interior Just south
of the Republic of Liberia there is large
| swampy region which extends for hundreds of
miles into the interior, and for many miles along
| the coast. Whenever it is deemed necessary to
penetrate this vast morass which abounds in
snakes, the natives simply rub the soles of their
| feet with garlic and oil The scent of the garlic
| is too much for the delicate stomachs of the
| reptiles, and they crawl away as fast as they
| are able. This insures almost absolute safety
LITTLE MAURICE BERGERoS was catching
shrimps at Bruly Landing La, the other day,
when large alligator suddenly appeared near
| him and made an effort to throw him into the
| river with its tail Fortunately the blow struck
with terrific force, missed its mark and the bow
| turned to run for his life. AS he did so the
| monster made a savage rush at him Coming
| out of the water, he seized Maurice by the leg
| infiicting slight flesh wound and tearing off a
| great portion OF the boys trousers. Before the
| alligator could get q second hold on the boy he
had scrambled up the laudng and was out of
| danger.
THE weight of your signature may be ascer-
| tanned by means of those delicate scales made
for delicate tests in assaying. They are adjusted
| TO mlligramms, and are 50 sensitive and so fine
| that an eyelash can be correctly weighed on
| them. You can write your name on a slim of
| paper with lead pencil and then find out how
much your signature weighs The weights are
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